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The place issues stand within the race
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Cory Booker turned the newest former presidential candidate to endorse Joe Biden, and our colleague Nick Corasaniti has the scoop.
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Booker is planning to look alongside Kamala Harris, who endorsed Biden on Sunday. Going down forward of the high-stakes Michigan main, that occasion appears destined to tackle a distinctly Klobuchar-and-Buttigieg-before-Super Tuesday really feel.
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Bernie Sanders obtained his personal huge endorsement from a black former presidential candidate — simply not one from this election cycle. Jesse Jackson, whose personal marketing campaign in 1988 Sanders endorsed as mayor of Burlington, Vt., traveled to Grand Rapids, Mich., to endorse Sanders on Sunday. “I stand with Bernie Sanders immediately as a result of he stood with me,” Jackson stated to cheers. “I stand with him as a result of he’s by no means misplaced his style for justice for the folks. I stand with him as a result of he stands with you.” Revving up a crowd whose candidate’s probabilities have dimmed considerably prior to now 10 days, Jackson led folks in his trademark chant: “Preserve hope alive!”
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Sanders will want much more than hope if he’s going to win Michigan, the massive prize tomorrow, when nominating contests can be held in six states. On Tremendous Tuesday, he didn’t rack up sufficient assist amongst liberals and white working-class voters to beat his deep deficit amongst black voters in lots of states. And as Jonathan Martin and Astead W. Herndon level out in a new article, the 2018 Michigan governor’s race — by which a left-wing challenger was trounced by the reasonable candidate, Gretchen Whitmer — presents but extra trigger for concern for Sanders’s marketing campaign.
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Our eyes can be peeled immediately for the discharge of a Monmouth College ballot of Michigan, anticipated by this afternoon.
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As Democrats begin to ponder who is likely to be chosen as a vice-presidential nominee, with a number of of the previous feminine presidential candidates continuously floated, the problem of gender stays entrance and heart. In a story printed this morning, Lisa Lerer and Reid J. Epstein discover the bitter aftertaste that’s setting in for a lot of Democratic girls after the race narrowed to a battle between two white males.
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“There have to be a lady on this ticket,” Cecile Richards, a longtime abortion-rights activist and founding father of the ladies’s group Supermajority, informed Reid and Lisa. “What is basically vital to see is illustration, a dedication to the problems that girls care about and a dedication to do one thing about it.”
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Throughout his remarks on the Sanders rally, Jackson made a pointed name to extend illustration of black girls in politics. “There’s a nice concern immediately concerning the affect of African-American girls,” he stated. “There must be one on the Supreme Court docket. There’s an actual consideration,” he added, for a black lady “to be on the ticket of the following nominee of our occasion. Inclusion results in progress, and with progress all people wins.”
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That’s the central theme of a four-part documentary series on Hillary Clinton that Hulu launched on Friday. The undertaking started merely as an try and seize Clinton’s 2016 marketing campaign on movie, but it surely ended up as a four-hour documentary that tells the story of her life, and seeks to look at greater questions concerning the therapy of feminine leaders within the public sphere.
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In an interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria over the weekend to advertise the collection, Clinton talked concerning the position of implicit bias in weakening assist for feminine politicians. “We feature with us — it’s type of deep within the DNA — what we count on girls to be,” she stated. “And we’re OK with type of opening the doorways and permitting our daughters, our granddaughters, you already know, to get nice educations and compete for excellent jobs. However there nonetheless is one thing inside that — when a lady says, ‘Wait a minute, I’d like to guide, I’d prefer to be in cost, I’d prefer to be your president or your chief government,’ or no matter it is likely to be — little alarm bells, little unconscious alarm bells, begin to ring.”
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If Biden does win the Democratic nomination, he can count on a nonstop fusillade of assaults from President Trump’s allies on Fox Information. And in latest days he’s gotten a preview of what that is likely to be like from Sean Hannity, a number one Fox host and a confidante of Trump. Hannity has repeatedly sought to forged doubt on whether or not Biden has the psychological colleges to efficiently function president.
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Hannity wondered aloud on Thursday whether or not “the 77-year-old Biden has the stamina, the energy, the psychological acumen and focus required.” And Hannity isn’t the one host to harp on it — to the purpose that Howard Kurtz, one other host, took a second on the air to name out two colleagues for suggesting that Biden is likely to be “senile or getting there.” Hannity hit right back via…